The story on Wilson-to-Niger is being kept alive in the media.

Jonah B. Gelbach at Card Carrying Member reports that someone who was in the know at the State Department appears to be carefully releasing bits of information to the media. The purpose is to keep the story front and center in the media.

There are a lot of very knowledgeable people who really dislike the incompetence demonstrated by the Bush White House. Besides people from the State Department, there are people from the CIA and from the uniformed military services. Besides putting Condi Rice in as Secretary of State the White House has placed Porter Goss at CIA. They left Rumsfeld in as Secretary of Defense and he has worked hard to fill the Joint Chiefs of Staff position with his own people.

I don't think the White House has control over its enemies. Instead, like terrorists, I think the Bush people are creating additional enemies everywhere they go.

Rove/Bush/Cheney and their supporters seem to see it all as nothing but politics, susceptible to political power manipulations. They are "True Believers" in their conservative ideologies. They can't be wrong, so all opposition has to be mere politics. They have no clue what they are doing to mess things up and make enemies wherever they go.

In fact, their behavior is very much like the destructive behavior of the Communist ideologues in the USSR, China and Cuba. Only the ideologies differ. The behaviors are very similar. They are 'True-Believers' for whom the end justifies the means. Such people create enemies for themselves wherever they go, then blame their enemies for their troubles.

Voila! The Bush White House explained.